Board Thread:Pokémon Help/@comment-31398341-20171026040947/@comment-31386746-20171222010258

Allofyou wrote:

Victini?

Fire type special wallbreakers like Mega Camerupt and Mega Charizard Y can also do that. Both of them also has a better offensive stats, thus giving Victini stiff competition. Comparing three fire-type special wallbreakers, Victini, Mega Camerupt and Mega Charizard Y, Victini is the only one without immunity to any types and cannot wallbreak effectively, making it harder to build a team around it. Additionally, it is weak to 5 types, all of which are common (Water, Ground, Rock, Ghost and Dark). Lastly, the meta is unkind to Victini : Marshadow, (Mega) Gengar, Mega Salamence, Chansey, Aegislash and Tyranitar are among the meta, which can beat Victini easily.

However, unlike other two, it has a very wide movepool, which can catch opponents off guard. To list the notable coverage + STAB moves :

- Searing Shot (Best Fire-type special STAB now, 30% chance to burn)

- Psychic / Psyshock

- Energy Ball / Grass Knot

- Thunderbolt

- Focus Blast

Nevertheless, Victini is still a niche Pokemon which must be used to its niche otherwise you're better off using Mega Charizard Y.

I would give it a C (Lower than Mega Camerupt) However, out of the 2 pokemon you mentioned, Victini is the only one that does not take up a mega slot. Most of the meta can't switch directly to Victini (Tyranitar, M-Gengar or just Regular Gengar, Aegislash, M-Pinsir, and even Marshadow) but however, they definitely win in a 1v1 situation.